Topics: - The role of central bank communication in the conduct of monetary policy and in ensuring financial stability. Is the role of communication in maintaining price stability and financial stability different? What should be communicated with respect to financial stability? How should...

The objective of the conference is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household asset accumulation, debt, and consumption behaviour over the life cycle. The focus of the conference is on research that makes extensive use of household...

Topics: - Financial liberalisation and the finance-growth nexus; - Financial linkages and propagation channels of shocks; - Asset price co-movements, bubbles and contagion phenomena; - Financial stability implications of international financial integration and global imbalances; - Global policy...

Course Offering Summer 2010: - Dynamic Micro Models and Policy Evaluation: Theory and Empirical Applications - Panel Data Linear Analysis - Microeconometrics Lab - Policy Evaluation: Estimating Average, Marginal, and Policy-Relevant Effects of Interventions -Dynamic Panel Data Models and...

The Zvi Griliches Research Summer School in the Economics of Innovation promotes interactions between academic researchers, innovation policy practitioners, statistical office analysts and PhD students with a general interest in analyzing technological innovation from an economic point of...

The BBSS offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and payments systems. Course...

The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, the BLSS offers courses that will cover recent developments within the macro-labor, micro-labor and managerial-labor contexts. In each...

After eight years of service as Vice-President of the European Central Bank, the mandate of Lucas Papademos will end on 31 May 2010. In order to honour his career both as a distinguished academic and as an eminent central banker, the ECB will host a two-day colloquium entitled “The great...

The organisers particularly encourage submissions of papers in the following areas: 1) Theory and Techniques - Monte Carlo simulation techniques for modelling and simulating asset returns - Use of contingent claim analysis in balance sheet risk management - Innovations in portfolio optimization...

The annual Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago International Finance Conference is designed to focus on important current international issues in banking and finance that are best analyzed by bringing together researchers and policymakers from different countries and different perspectives. The...